ipod to pc?

Smithers

is there a way of takin albums from a ipod to a pc without itunes?

SwampThing

google it, or have a look at ephpod.

Ro-76

Smithers wrote:

is there a way of takin albums from a ipod to a pc without itunes?

Here without any software

or

Here using various software options

I've used sharepod with success.

Ro

Stark

Anapod's supposed to be really good. Costs around €25 though.

The problem with the "without software" option is that iTunes completely randomises the names and locations of music files when you copy them over. Songs within albums aren't even kept together. The files must be in this layout for the iPod to play them. The software options should be able to read the iTunes database on the iPod in order to reconstruct the original filenames and directories.

Karoma

This has been discussed here and on other forums far too often. Please use the Boards Search function or Google it.

Further explanation (To hopefully avoid this being brought up again and again..)
The iPod was designed to be the destination of a one-way trip for your tunes. This design was intentional supposedly to prevent people “stealing” music. The truth is that not everyone who wants to upload songs from the iPod to a computer is stealing music. It’s perfectly acceptable use to copy songs that you own back off the iPod. Right, with justification aside…

The music is stored (Rather chaotically) on the iPod in a hidden folder called iPod_Control.

The free, and awkward way:
In Windows, you simply have to open explorer.exe and open the iPod-drive.
Ensure that Hidden Folders are visible (Tools -> Folder Options -> View-> Hidden Files and Folders should be set to Show Hidden Files and Folders).
Open iPod_Control, and the sub-directory that is Music (Although: I’ve found it better/easier to Search as opposed to exploring the folders.)
As you’ll see-it’s a mess with numerous folders, and tracks from the same album spread over these folders. Also, it seems that later iPod firmware revisions have obfuscated file(name)s further.

So it’s advisable to use programs to save you pulling out your hair…

Mac-specific:
Senuti – “everything in reverse” – it offers a built-in search facility, and displays playlists. It’s essentially iTunes in reverse (Hence the name!)
OmniWeb – it’s a (Commercial) web browser. Just drag the iPod folder over and you get a nice list of folders…

Windows-specific:
EphPod (Free, and has been around a good while…)
XPlay (Commercial – I’ve never used it TBH)
PodUtil (Freeware)
Anapod Explorer - Anapod Explorer lets you access your iPod's contents from any Web browser and play its music via any MP3 program of your choice. You can edit song tags directly on the iPod. It also has an embedded database engine (Anapod-SQL); so you can search the iPod using almost any criteria and generate reports in HTML or XML. (A free trial is available)

Linux-specific: a lot of the above will work, or have been ported – just add “linux” to a google search.


Other software:
http://www.versiontracker.com/
http://www.tucows.com/downloads/Windows/PDA/IPod/SystemUtilities/
http://www.download.com/

Static M.e.

Nice post Karoma, Sums it all up
should be in some sort of sticky I suppose .... but then who would read it